Dissident republican groups ‘vying to attack police’

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Youths attack a police vehicle during the annual Republican Easter
commemoration parade in Londonderry yesterday. Police said that their
vehicles and a police photographer were targeted at the rally by
missile-throwing youths and least one petrol bomb was thrown.

Matt Baggott, the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland,
said that dissident republican groups were vying to outdo each other. He
said that dissidents had carried out at least one attack each week during
the past month, all of which were aimed at police